It's #FossilFriday! Great time to check out our new paper if you haven't yet. #Palaeobotany #JurassicPlants

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Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social is featured today in the Sunday Post! Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social 🧵 👇 1/6 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really excited to be kicking off this series of Palaeobotany evening lectures at the Oxford University Botanic Garden. All are online and free to attend 👇👇

UMMP 57588: specimen showing the Late Devonian genera Archaeopteris (fronds) and Callixylon (trunks, branches) belonged to the same plant. This critical discovery by UMMP curator Charles Beck illuminated the structure of trees contributing to some of the planet's most ancient forests. #FossilFriday

So great having @isabelmonte.bsky.social visiting Edinburgh. Thanks for a wonderful seminar and some great discussions. Really pleased the rain held off for a lovely walk round the Botanics - including the obligatory stop to see the Lycopodium clavatum 🪴 🌿 🍄 🦠

Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!

Recently, both our team and the Richardson/Estelle/Strader teams showed that ARF transcription factors are actively degraded. In this new preprint, Martijn de Roij explores the requirements and relevance of ARF degradation (1/7)

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Pollen diversity #3DThursday!🌼🌾 Thanks to Nat Prunet's careful microscopy, we see ridges, spikes & pores that reveal how plants spread & survive. 🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM 980, Airyscan 2 🥼: @nat-prunet.bsky.social 🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core 🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0 #syGlass

Huge congratulations to #early-career scientists working with plants awarded with ERC-2025-StG @ecologybasel.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social

Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC! This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Macroevolutionary role reversals in the earliest radiation of bony fishes www.cell.com/current-biol...

🌱 Big news! @thepallavisingh.bsky.social has been awarded by @aria-research.bsky.social to develop PlantPlug! 🎉🧬 By turning mistletoe into a programmable bio-interface, we aim to boost crop resilience & yields 🌿 Stay tuned for more updates and job opportunities! #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience

🔎 DARWIN REVIEW 🔎 Mody et al. review the study of the cellular basis of plant morphogenesis with 3D digital organs 🔬🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @kschneitz.bsky.social

Here's an assortment of #Jurassic critters for #FossiFriday, which I recently put together! Honestly, I particularly love my #Heterodontosaurus (the best dinosaur!) and the wittle #moth Archaeolepis! And of course, there are plenty of #plants. #paleoart #paleontology #paleobotany #sciart #dinosaur

The visit to #PDevSrC via Boston wouldn’t be complete without seeing the glass flowers in Havard. Great to see Onoclea 🌿 in glass and out in the field! Some unusual development in this frond as it seems to be half fertile and half vegetative rather than a typical sporophyll #FernFriday

How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

A beautiful Cycadeiodea - the stem of extinct seed plants which superficially resemble modern cycads. Looks very similar to the Purbeck (140Ma) ones I am familiar with from Dorset. On display in Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid #FossilFriday 🌲🌿🌱⚒🌏🔬🧪

Some plant fossils, like this piece of Triassic wood, retain some organic matter of their cell walls 🌿⛏️ With a little bit of chemistry we can remove minerals & transfer the organic matter on a piece of cellulose acetate that can be observed under the microscope 🧪Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany

Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑‍💻 #PDevSRC

Fantastic talk on plant evolution @sandyheth.bsky.social #FASEB Mechanisms in Plant Development

The final morning #PDevSRC has included a series of great talks about leaf development and evolution spanning dicots, moss @coudertlab.bsky.social and now grasses @drannisr.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

Another great morning #PDevSRC I can see why so many people say this is one of their favourite meetings! Really enjoyed hearing @zoenv.bsky.social talking about the ongoing work on RAB-A5c and mechanical cues in root development @ckirchhelle.bsky.social

Sticking with roots after the break with great talks about the cambium @apmahonen.bsky.social, root regeneration and xylem maturation @hazaklab.bsky.social #PDevSRC

Great morning session with talks on stomata @stanfordstomata.bsky.social xylem development @bertderybel.bsky.social regeneration @bas-bargmann.bsky.social and root cel elongation from Flor Ercoli #PDevSRC 🌱 🌿

🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide? Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations. #PlantScience #CellBiology #Arabidopsis @camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great start to FASEB Mechanisms in Plant Development with the Benfey Memorial Lecture presented by @bradylabs.bsky.social #PDevSRC

Arrived and ready for #PDevSRC!! 🌱🧪

Tmesipteris, 1 of the 2 genera of Psilotaceae, growing on a tree fern trunk in New Zealand 🌿 With their apparently simple organisation, Psilotaceae were once considered as "remnants" of the earliest vascular plants, but recent analyses show that they are actually ferns. Happy #FernFriday!

Friday Flower 001: Mimulus lewisii 🌸✨ Monkeyflowers are masterpieces of design with nectar-guide spots formed by an activator–inhibitor system of MYB transcription factors. These generate reaction–diffusion patterns across the ventral petal.

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery! Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes! The scale of this study is really amazing! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Our mini-review with @deenigeechte.bsky.social in @jxbotany.bsky.social on recent advances in CLE signaling field highlighting studies from bryophytes to angiosperms. @uni-muenster.de @unifrbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Thanks to all the authors and reviewers who are contributing to this special issue! 🌿⛏️ Many papers are still in review/in revision but some are already available online: academic.oup.com/aob/search-r... #paleobotany #FossilFriday

Auxin does everything, but how? The story just got more complicated by the discovery of a B class ARF degron providing a means of protein (in)stability regulation. @mjprigge.bsky.social @dolfweijers.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social

After nearly twenty years in the making, our attempt at understanding what makes the chaetognath phylum so unique has finally been published! www.nature.com/articles/s41... with #LauraPiovani @dariagavr.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social and others /1

So...... I made some more stickers!!!!!!! #jurassicpark #paleoart #paleobotany #paleobotanist #plants #dinosaurs #stickers

Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna, who we have had the pleasure of working with at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, this is a great opportunity not to be missed! Just 2 more days to apply for a funded place if you are an ECR

New paper from our workshop funded by the Calleva Centre ‪@magdalenoxford.bsky.social‬. We discuss how to minimise the risk of resistance evolution for new fungal control methods using RNA sprays - based on lessons from fungicide resistance studies and evolutionary genomics. doi.org/10.1016/j.fb...

Can’t wait for this conference 👇👇 Do register if you haven’t already 🌱 🌿

Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

🌟 JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟 On Sept 17th, we will hear from our plenary speaker Prof Jane Langdale on the regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves 🌱🔬 ⏳ Time is running out – register by 19 Aug! 🗓️ 👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75 #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @janelangdale.bsky.social

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out! Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

Always repost trigonotarbids 🕷